It's the story of What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature
who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush on a cat named
McCavity, and a penchant for getting into trouble. One day he
happens upon a feisty girl skibberee who is working as an Agent of
Change--trading coins for teeth--and learns that there is a dutiful
tribe of skibbereen (call them tooth fairies) to which he hopes to
belong. As his tale of discovery unfolds, however, both
What-the-Dickens and Dinah come to see that the world is both
richer and less sure than they ever imagined.
Fron the bound galley:
Meet What-the-Dickens, a rogue tooth fairy and Gregory Maguire's
most captivating character since his reinvention of Elphaba in
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West!
When ten-year-old Dinah and her two siblings are trapped by a
terrible storm, cousin Gage keeps up their spirits with an unlikely
fantasy--that skibbereen, aka tooth fairies, lived in warring
colonies right in your neighborhood, colonies devoted to the
planting and harvesting of your teeth. Dinah is skeptical at first,
but stories told by candlelight on nights when the real world has
become unbearable have a way of becoming real, and Dinah starts
to--wants to--believe. Don't we all?
Gregory Maguire is America's premier interpreter of the
fairy-tale world. He lives with his family outside Boston,
Massachusetts.
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